Includes bibliographical references and index

Surprises in the state results? / Hal Hovey -- Pete Wilson for President? / Thad Beyle -- The untold story of November / Stuart Rothenberg -- The court that forgot about politics / Alan Ehrenhalt -- Why term limits would only make matters worse / Charles N. Wheeler III -- Sloppy democracy / Alan Rosenthal -- When the ballot takes a beating / Linda Wagar -- California closes its doors / Daniel M. Weintraub -- Where's the party? / Cindy Simon Rosenthal -- Belligerent banality and the modern political campaign / Alan Ehrenhalt -- Firepower / Charles Mahtesian -- Uneasy at any speed / Carla Blanton -- The press and you / Jim Mitzelfeld -- The Virginia Capitol Press Corps : home-grown liberals / Mark J. Rozell -- A journalist should be fair and accurate, not objective / Jennifer Halperin -- One way to run a legislative body : the end of an era in Ohio / Dennis M. Anderson -- The political virtue of partisan deadlock / Alan Ehrenhalt -- Pluperfect purity / Garry Boulard -- Media attention often causes lawmakers to act / Mark G. Schroeder

The captains of conservatism / Charles Mahtesian -- Reporter bites governor / Michael Aron -- Why Illinois needs Lieutenant Governor's position / Charles N. Wheeler III -- The management of reinvented federalism / Robert D. Behn -- Taking Chicago private / Charles Mahtesian -- Privatization holds false promise for public sector / Roberta Lynch -- The human services nightmare / Charles Mahtesian -- Turn down the volume / Peter Buchsbaum -- The assault on juvenile justice / Penelope Lemov -- The N.C. Supreme Court at 175 : slow on civil rights but fast on free speech? / Katherine White --Reinventing government, one region at a time / Bruce Bryant-Friedland -- Annexation to difficult / John Hager and Morton Holbrook -- The urban village war / Rob Gurwitt -- The locust in the garden of government / Alan Ehrenhalt -- Two perspectives on the states and public policy / Hal Hovey -- Taxes : the struggle for balance / Penelope Lemov -- Roboprison / Penelope Lemov -- The public university goes a little less public / Andrea MacAdam -- An acute case of health reform / Penelope Lemov -- The myth of welfare magnets / James H. Johnson, Jr., David M. Grant, Walter C. Farrell, Jr

xii, 253 pages ; 24 cm

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